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...more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck's performance drew the headlines, a Washington jury found newspaperman Seymour Peck guilty of contempt of Congress [See PRESS]. Ex-Communist Peck had freely testified to his own past deeds but declined to name other men he had known in the same net. In the end, the courts may decide that Beck's silence is technically less vulnerable to punishment than...
...heroine (Lauren Bacall) is a big-city career type who thinks she can run a business (designing clothes) in the daytime and a man (Gregory Peck) at night. This is O.K. with Peck, a fellow who seems to require nothing in life but steaks medium and ear lobes raw, but his wife's high-fashion friends get on his nerves. She replies that his low-life buddies get on her nerves too. Big fight. She wins it easily by invoking the old Hollywood rule of inverse virginity. When she proves that he had another bitch before...
...Metrocolor, flossy furniture, slinky clothes-with the skill of a cold old pro. The comedy is kept on a fairly low commercial plane too. The funniest line concerns a retired pugilist. "Who is that man with no nose?" asks wife Bacall suspiciously. "Oh, he has a nose," says husband Peck defensively. "It's inside...
Harold Stassen, the G.O.P.'s own Peter Piper, has picked himself a peck of pickled political peppers while serving as a presidential assistant on disarmament. First, he plucked himself a hot one when he led the drive to dump Dick Nixon from the 1956 presidential ticket. And then, five weeks ago, he served up his opinion that Nixon was indeed a 1956 liability, and that the Republicans could have won control of Congress if Massachusetts' Christian Herter rather than Nixon had been the vice-presidential nominee. Fellow Republicans glowered, wondered how long, O Ike, before Harold is sent...
Herter was one of a panel arranged by Thomas E. Crookes '49, head of Student Placement. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, moderated the panel consisting of John Rhome, partner of Hutchins & Wheeler, Boston; Wright Tisdale, Assistant General Counsel of Ford Motor Company; and Herter, partner of Bingham, Dana & Gould...